My son is 26. He makes me look at him quite often and I just shake my head and say "it's like watching a chimp try to open a coconut" So below is the post. I find it funny because I warn him all the time.
[SIZE=16pt]I have been growing a lot of the world's hottest pepper, the Carolina Reaper, and an assortment of around 80 super hot peppers this year. A few of my peppers started to go bad since I haven't had a chance to dry them or use them. I decided that I would just put them in the garbage disposal to get rid of them. For a minute or so I was greeted by a noxious gas of capsacin spewing up in my face, initiating a pleasant dry heave. Nothing too much worse than when I dry them out. But lo and behold the disposal wound up clogging. I turned off the garbage disposal and instinctively put my arm elbow deep into this broth to try and clear the blockage, sadly to no avail yet.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=16pt]A few minutes later I start to feel a tingling under my school ring and then it eventually started to spread up towards my elbow. Now the burn is pretty consistent and feels like I have left my hand on the wood stove for far too long. But the fun doesn't stop there. I had to rub my face and stomach before the symptoms started to appear on my arm so now those are burning as well. Cutting into one alone can be a problem hours later without washing thoroughly. But since capsacin is water insoluble and there were many in the sink the dreadful heat is concentrated and spread nice and evenly. Thankfully I have some experience with this burning from the past, but not to this extreme, or I would probably be unable to handle it.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=16pt]If you want to try some super hots, please for your own safety and sanity use gloves and don't stick them in the disposal.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=16pt]I have been growing a lot of the world's hottest pepper, the Carolina Reaper, and an assortment of around 80 super hot peppers this year. A few of my peppers started to go bad since I haven't had a chance to dry them or use them. I decided that I would just put them in the garbage disposal to get rid of them. For a minute or so I was greeted by a noxious gas of capsacin spewing up in my face, initiating a pleasant dry heave. Nothing too much worse than when I dry them out. But lo and behold the disposal wound up clogging. I turned off the garbage disposal and instinctively put my arm elbow deep into this broth to try and clear the blockage, sadly to no avail yet.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=16pt]A few minutes later I start to feel a tingling under my school ring and then it eventually started to spread up towards my elbow. Now the burn is pretty consistent and feels like I have left my hand on the wood stove for far too long. But the fun doesn't stop there. I had to rub my face and stomach before the symptoms started to appear on my arm so now those are burning as well. Cutting into one alone can be a problem hours later without washing thoroughly. But since capsacin is water insoluble and there were many in the sink the dreadful heat is concentrated and spread nice and evenly. Thankfully I have some experience with this burning from the past, but not to this extreme, or I would probably be unable to handle it.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=16pt]If you want to try some super hots, please for your own safety and sanity use gloves and don't stick them in the disposal.[/SIZE]